Where: Ceará, Brazil (7.1° S, 39.7° W: paleocoordinates 8.6° S, 8.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Crato Formation (Santana Group), Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 112.0 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; lithified carbonate
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: adpression, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• Specimens were presumably purchased or donated to the Guelph University
Primary reference: P. Vršanský. 1999. Lower Cretaceous Blattaria. Proceedings of the First International Palaeoentomological Conference 167-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 138921: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 02.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Insecta | |
Ponopterix axelrodi Vršanský and Grimaldi 1999 winged insect G 417, G 434, G 458, G 484, G 509, G 595, G 702
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